Game Cheating and Anti-Cheat

The cluster discusses the widespread issue of cheating in online multiplayer games, the challenges and strategies of anti-cheat systems, and their impact on player experience and game integrity.

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ChrisArchitect Aug 28, 2024 View on HN

FYI:Anti-Cheat software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating_in_online_games#Anti-...

Thaxll Dec 5, 2022 View on HN

Which is impossible so you prefer to have games with cheaters then?

armarr Jun 30, 2025 View on HN

Anti-cheat does not need to run real-time to be effective

lisk1 Feb 4, 2020 View on HN

On the brights side devs can massively profit from cheaters for example EFT , over the past 5-6 months they banned several thousands of accounts for cheating pretty sure at least 50% of the banned cheaters bought new accounts until the next time their account will get banned. So it can be profitable cat and mouse game if the devs play smart.

google234123 Dec 8, 2020 View on HN

Anti cheat is essential to keep multiplayer games fun

tngranados Apr 15, 2020 View on HN

I've seen that happening with other anti-cheat system in other games.

brigadier132 May 8, 2024 View on HN

Catching cheaters in games might seem like a good use.

cobalt Oct 30, 2024 View on HN

and it is a cat and mouse game between cheat and game devs

pertymcpert Apr 3, 2025 View on HN

Probably also because it's a multiplayer game and you want to try to stop cheaters.

Wowfunhappy Jan 4, 2020 View on HN

Shouldn't most of the cheat detection be happening server side for exactly this reason? Is that not feasible?